Molniya 2-6, a Soviet military and civilian communications satellite in highly elliptical Molniya orbit providing long-dwell coverage of northern latitudes. Molniya-M (Blok-2BL) from Plesetsk delivered the craft for domestic TV and military relay service.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 45th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 11 July 1973, 09:58 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1973-045
- Launches in 1973
- 50th of 116
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